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Amazon.com review summary for Samsung 850 Pro

alaTest has collected and analyzed 360 user reviews of Samsung 850 Pro from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.7/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other Solid-state drive on Amazon.com.

Samsung SSD 850 Pro (128GB, 256GB & 1TB) Review: Enter the 3D Era

The present solution to the scalability problem is 3D NAND, or V-NAND as Samsung calls it. Traditionally NAND and other semiconductors are scaled horizontally along the X and Y axes but due to the laws of physics, there is a limit of how small the...

Samsung does not cease to amaze me with their SSDs as the 850 Pro just kills it in every aspect. The performance is there. The endurance is the best of the class. Heck, even Samsung's feature and software suites beat the competition by a mile. To be...

Samsung 850 Pro SSD review

Samsung has been a pioneer in the SSD industry, mainly due to its strategy been tight to vertical integration. Releases quite some time ago was the SSD 840, the the first mass produced SSD to utilize TLC NAND. The 840 EVO followed and now, Samsung...

Being the fastest consumer SSD we have tested so far, the 850 Pro should be your pick if you are looking for the best SATA 6Gbps drive.

Samsung 850 Pro SSD Review

The 840 Pro was one of the most successful high-end SSD series over the past few years, and now it's time for an update. Samsung's 850 Pro SSD is powered by the company's cutting-edge in-house 32 layer 3D V-NAND technology, which is said to deliver up...

Samsung says the 850 Pro is the fastest, most reliable SATA SSD available and we'll buy that line until we test the SanDisk Extreme Pro or experience a failure.

It certainly isn't the best value considering its premium over the Extreme Pro and availability of drives like the Crucial MX100. RAPID isn't as useful as you may think.

So has Samsung delivered the fastest SATA SSD? Our results seem to suggest so. The only noteworthy SSD missing from our line-up is the new

Samsung 850 Pro SSD Review: 3D Vertical NAND Hits Desktop Storage

After winning an award last year for its 840 EVO, Samsung is ready to follow up with another high-end offering. The company's 850 Pro SSD merges the EVO's familiar MEX controller with 3D V-NAND. Does the combination justify an upgrade, or should you wait?

Samsung 850 Pro SSD: Australian Review

Buying an SSD can massively increase the speed of your PC, improving boot times, program loading speed and slashing power consumption. But what makes one solid-state drive different to another? All the changes you can't see. Samsung's new 850 Pro makes...

The 128GB version of the 850 Pro, due to its smaller amount of onboard RAM, fewer NAND packages and less over-provisioning, is the slowest of the lot in testing, only cracking 470MBps write speeds instead of the 520MBps of the 256GB and above drives....

Excellent deal

It could have been supplied with the mounting kit included. Just because it's an inconvenience to have to buy it in addition

This is a top performing SSD drive. Installed in a new build a month ago and it works flawlessly. No issues during installation or setup. The included management software, Samsung Magician is a great toll to manage the drive and OS settings

SAMSUNG MZ-7KE256BW

Must Over Provision by 20% To Get Advertised Speeds

Given the rate at which SSDs drop in value (due to Moore's law), for the price, I think I'd prefer something a little bigger, with about the same performance, from another product (and perhaps another company).

I like the drive. Samsung and its flagship SSD have a known reputation to be very reliable and consistent. You do get advertised results, but

you have to over provision the drive by 20%. For a 256GB drive, that's about 51GB on top of the fact that you only end up with 238.5 of the 256GB once the drive has been installed and formatted in your computer. Should you only provision 10-15%, you'll...

Speed demon

Is it normal to install these drives while still in their cardboard box? That's what iBuyPower did with mine. The whole box was shoved into the drive bay, cardboard and all. It works, but this seems like a really bad idea.

Lightning fast, boots Windows 8 in seconds

None yet, though I'm nervous about SSD's longevity. I typically use the same PC for several years before updating. Given the nature of SSD's, it's likely I'll be forced to replace the boot drive at least once. Never a fun task